Lectures
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| Dates | Lecture # | Topic |
| Jan 18 | Lecture 1 | Course Orientation. Electric Charge; Coulomb's Law; Electric Field; Motion of a Charge in Electric Field |
| Jan 23 | Lecture 2 | Electric Field Due To a Charge Distribution |
| Jan 25 | Lecture 3 | Electric Field Lines; Electric Dipole; Electric Flux; Gauss' Law |
| Jan 30 | Lecture 4 | Gauss' Law Calculations; Conductors and Electric Fields |
| Feb 1 | Lecture 5 | Electric Potential; Electric Potential Energy |
| Feb 6 | Lecture 6 | Electric Potentials of Charge Distributions; Equipotentials; Electric Field and Electric Potential Gradient |
| Feb 8 | Lecture 7 | Capacitance; Capacitors in Series and Parallel |
| Feb 13 | Lecture 8 | Exam 1 Review |
| Feb 15 | Lecture 9 | Energy stored in Capacitors and Electric Fields; Dielectrics |
| Feb 20 | Lecture 10 | Electric Current; Current Density; Resistance |
| Feb 22 | Lecture 11 | EMF; Electric Power |
| Feb 27 | Lecture 12 | Resistances in Series and Parallel; Kirchhoff's Rules |
| Mar 1 | Lecture 13 | Electrical Instruments; RC Circuits |
| Mar 6 | Lecture 14 | Magnetic Fields and Flux; Motion of Charged Particle in Magnetic Field; Gauss Law for Magnetism |
| Mar 8 | Lecture 15 | Magnetic Forces on Currents; Magnetic Torque |
| Mar 13 | Lecture 16 | Magnetic Field of a Current; Biot-Savart Law; Magnetic Field of Wires; Force between Conductors |
| Mar 15 | Lecture 17 | Magnetic Field of a Current Loop; Ampere's Law; Solenoids; Toroids |
| Mar 20 | Lecture 18 | Exam 2 review |
| Mar 22 | Lecture 19 | Faraday's Law; Induction; Lenz's Law; Generators; Motional emf |
| Apr 3 | Lecture 20 | Induced Electric Field; Eddy Currents; Displacement Current |
| Apr 5 | Lecture 21 | Electromagnetic Waves |
| Apr 10 | Lecture 22 | Light: Reflection, Refraction, and Dispersion |
| Apr 12 | Lecture 23 | Concave and Convex Mirrors |
| Apr 17 | Lecture 24 | Exam 3 review |
| Apr 19 | Lecture 25 | Lenses; Optical Instruments |
| Apr 24 | Lecture 26 | Double Slit Interference |
| Apr 26 | Lecture 27 | Thin Film Interference |
| May 1 | Lecture 28 | Diffraction |
| May 3 | Lecture 29 | Final exam review |